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INTRODUCTION
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
- INTRODUCTION 1
- Appropriation in Wagner's Tristan Libretto 12
- Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "Magnificent Translation": A Study in the Genesis of the Otello Libretto 34
- An Unseen Player: Destiny in FelUas et Malisande 60
- The Origins of Italian Literaturoper: Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, and Francesca da Rimini 92
- Erik's Dream and Tannhauser's Journey 129
- The Languages of Love in Carmen 168
- How to Avoid Believing (While Reading Iago's "Credo") 184
- The Numinous in Gotterdammerung 200
- Musorgsky's Libretti on Historical Themes: From the Two Borises to Khovanshchina 235
- Boito and the 1868 Mefistofele Libretto as a Reform Text 268
- On Reading Nineteenth-Century Opera: Verdi through the Looking-Glass 288
- Strauss and the Pervert 306
- A Deconstructive Postscript: Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera 328
- INDEX 347
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
- INTRODUCTION 1
- Appropriation in Wagner's Tristan Libretto 12
- Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "Magnificent Translation": A Study in the Genesis of the Otello Libretto 34
- An Unseen Player: Destiny in FelUas et Malisande 60
- The Origins of Italian Literaturoper: Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, and Francesca da Rimini 92
- Erik's Dream and Tannhauser's Journey 129
- The Languages of Love in Carmen 168
- How to Avoid Believing (While Reading Iago's "Credo") 184
- The Numinous in Gotterdammerung 200
- Musorgsky's Libretti on Historical Themes: From the Two Borises to Khovanshchina 235
- Boito and the 1868 Mefistofele Libretto as a Reform Text 268
- On Reading Nineteenth-Century Opera: Verdi through the Looking-Glass 288
- Strauss and the Pervert 306
- A Deconstructive Postscript: Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera 328
- INDEX 347